HELP, I lost my photos. How to undo empty trash?

Hello,
I did a stupid thing and my iphoto library ended up in the trash, which I emptied.
I did not SECURE empty. Any way to recover from this?
Help please,
Thank you,

First, stop using the computer. Everything you do now overwrites the space where your photos used to be.
Second, invest in Data Rescue:
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
It is not cheap, and it probably won't get everything back, but if you value your photos, that's really the only shot you have.
(There is a new thing called "Disk Drill" ( http://www.cleverfiles.com/ )that seems to be free in beta test mode, but I have no experience with it and cannot say whether it will work or not. Data Rescue has saved my data in the past.)

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